The BBC is seeking to capitalise on the success of the Great British Bake Off by urging the country to get its fingers dirty … well, green, anyway … with a new gardening series. The Daily Telegraph reports that The Great British Garden Revival is aiming to encourage people to reverse the trend for paving over their own leafy corner of this Sceptred Isle and instead return to a riot of colour where flowers abound. The series starts on 9 December and will be hosted by Charlie Dimmock and Monty Don. Those two salts of the earth are back again.

Stuart Heritage: Mel, Sue and Paul Hollywood may be absent from the kiddies' version of The Great British Bake Off – but the permanently delighted pre-teens, who are so eager to please that it hurts, are more than adequate compensation